Our Houses – Nursery

This week we have been looking at our houses on google maps, we have spotted out house and talked about who lives there with us. We have then been busy creating a picture of our house thinking about what colour it is and what colour door we have? The children have been amazed to see […]

Year One’s Geography Observations

In Geography we’ve being spying and spotting in our school grounds! 🕵️‍♀️ We talked about rural and urban areas and then thought that where we live is a mixture of the two (although mostly urban but we do have lots of fields and it isn’t far to the countryside!) 🍃 We then found different shapes, […]

Map work in Year Three

Year Three have been learning about South America. They used atlases to locate the different countries and capital cities. Over the next few weeks, we will be looking more closely at Brazil.

Year One’s Transport Poems

Year One have been studying poetry this week, all about transport and travel in their local area! 🚗 They talked about the different forms of transport they might see, labelled transport and its parts and then practised familiar poems with different words.🚂 Once they knew the different versions of the poems they added actions and […]

Computing in Reception

To complete our computing learning,  we have been learning how to programme the Beebots  to follow a path around a range of different maps. The children loved predicting where the Bee-Bot would finish once they had programmed it.

Year Five’s Visit to Stanley Head

This week, Year Five have enjoyed an adventurous visit Stanley Head to develop their mountaineering skills. Throughout the day, they completed climbing, abseiling and orienteering challenge. To their credit, they all demonstrated fantastic team work and a super growth mindset.  

Animated Books in Year One

As part of their learning in Computing, the children have created their own animated books! 📚 They wrote stories relating to their Geography learning about Antarctica or penguins 🐧 or linked to their Maths work on time, thinking about what they did before, during or after school. They used backgrounds, created images, added and changed […]

World Environment Day

Last week, we finally got the chance to celebrate World Environment Day at Hillside. Each class completed an activity, either appreciating the outdoors or learning about an issue that is affecting the planet. All of the children fully engaged and had a lovely day.

Year One’s Peak Wildlife Visit

Year One visited Peak Wildlife Park this week to find out more about animals! They talked about how to classify animals (and found lots of mammals and birds!) and also considered different animal’s diets and whether this made them herbivores, carnivores or omnivores. We also studied the Humboldt penguin closely and learned that it came […]

Hot and Cold Places in Year Two

The children have been learning about the hot and cold places in the world. They then presented Hillside Weather and spoke about the weather locally, using lots of great vocabulary. Then, they explored climate change and made pieces of art outside with an SOS for the world.